Latest On Sony Teasing Next-Gen PlayStation (PS5): AMD Chip with Zen 2 CPU & Navi GPU, SSD

Sony is tapping AMD’s latest CPU and GPU architectures for the next-generation PlayStation’s chip. On the CPU side we’re looking at 8 CPU cores based on AMD’s Zen 2 microarchitecture. This is the same CPU microarchitecture that AMD is expecting to launch in PCs mid-year, with products such as their Ryzen “Matisse” CPU and second-generation EPYC “Rome” processors. While we’re still waiting to see just how well the Zen 2 architecture performs in the real world, it’s succeeding the already very powerful Zen (1) architecture, so everyone has high expectations here and AMD seems eager to deliver on them.

PS5 details were shared by Sony’s Mark Cerny in an interview with Wired. What was published didn’t cover price, Wired writer Peter Rubin did broach it during his discussion with Cerny, and he shared their exchange on Twitter. Naturally, Cerny was coy about saying too much about the topic, but he did tease the system will launch with an “appealing” price tag. “I believe that we will be able to release it at an SRP [suggested retail price] that will be appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set,” he said.

Wrapping up Sony’s early hardware teaser of the next-generation PlayStation, Cerny and Wired’s article also confirm something that most people would expect with Sony’s architecture choice: the new console will be backwards-compatible with PS4 games.

PlayStation 5 Leaked Specs

The leaked specs are very similair to the official information we have gotten but, the leaked specs go into more details. The leaked specs claim that the PS 5 is going to feature an 8 core/16 threads AMD Zen 2 and Navi as well but, it is said that the AMD Navi GPU is going to feature 12 TFLOPs of performance.

PS 5 2X More Powerful Than Xbox One X

The Xbox One X features an AMD integrated GPU that features 6 Tflops of performance this means that the PS 5’s GPU is at least going to be 2x more powerful than the Xbox One X. The Xbox One X and PS 4 Pro are both held back by their outdated CPUs but, this isn’t going to be the case with the PS 5 thanks to it’s 7nm 8 core/16 threads Zen 2 CPU. With proper optimization, the PS 5 may be able to run the latest triple-A games at 4k 60 FPS!

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